Valley Life Church

On Sunday, August 8, 2021, Gio Serrato shared a message in person and online via YouTube Live and Zoom. In our discussion this week, Gio lead us in a conversation about our willingness to respond to Jesus in faith. Gio asks us three questions:

- Am I willing to recognize Jesus as Lord?

- Am I willing to accept God’s will for our lives?

- Am I willing to obey the Lord in however God leads us?

Large crowds followed Jesus as he came down the mountainside. Suddenly, a man with leprosy approached him and knelt before him. “Lord,” the man said, “if you are willing, you can heal me and make me clean.”
Jesus reached out and touched him. “I am willing,” he said. “Be healed!” And instantly the leprosy disappeared. Then Jesus said to him, “Don’t tell anyone about this. Instead, go to the priest and let him examine you. Take along the offering required in the law of Moses for those who have been healed of leprosy. This will be a public testimony that you have been cleansed.”
Matthew 8:1-4 (NLT)

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The Spirit Empowered Life, Part 6: Practicing Patience as a Spiritual Discipline

On Sunday, August 1, 2021, Pastor Stuart Nice shared a message in person and online via YouTube Live and Zoom. In our discussion this week, Pastor Stuart continues our series on the Fruits of the Spirit by sharing how the Holy Spirit produces the fruit of patience in our lives. We discuss how to practice patience in the seasons of life we find ourselves in, being patient with one another, and being patient with God.

Galatians 5:22 (NIV) 
The acts of the flesh are obvious… But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience…

Colossians 1:11 (NLT)

We also pray that you will be strengthened with all his glorious power so you will have all the endurance and patience you need. May you be filled with joy.

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On Sunday, July 25, 2021, Pastor Stuart Nice shared a message in person and online via YouTube Live and Zoom. In our discussion this week, Pastor Stuart continues our series on the Fruits of the Spirit by sharing how the Holy Spirit produces the fruit of peace in our lives. We discuss how we lose our peace, how we restore our peace, and how to cooperate with the Holy Spirit in living a life of peace.

Galatians 5:22 (NIV) 
The acts of the flesh are obvious… But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace…

John 14:25-27 (NIV) 
“All this I have spoken while still with you. But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you. Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.

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On Sunday, July 18, 2021, Pastor Stuart Nice shared a message in person and online via YouTube Live and Zoom. In our discussion this week, Pastor Stuart continues our new series on the Fruits of the Spirit by sharing how the Holy Spirit empowers us to live a joy-filled life by acknowledging things that bring us joy, identifying things that steal our joy, and seeking the Spirit’s presence to lead us in joy in times of ease and challenge.

Galatians 5:19, 22 (NIV) 
The acts of the flesh are obvious… But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy…

May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.
Romans 15:13 (NIV)

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On Sunday, July 11, 2021, Pastor Stuart Nice shared a message in person and online via YouTube Live and Zoom. In our discussion this week, Pastor Stuart continues our new series on the Fruits of the Spirit by sharing how the Holy Spirit empowers us to love by teaching us to see the image of God in one another. From there, the Spirit teaches us to bless and forgive, which are necessary for loving God by loving others.

Galatians 5:19, 22 (NIV) 
The acts of the flesh are obvious… But the fruit of the Spirit is love.

“You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be children of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous. If you love those who love you, what reward will you get? Are not even the tax collectors doing that? And if you greet only your own people, what are you doing more than others? Do not even pagans do that? Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.”
Matthew 5:43-48 (NIV)

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On Sunday, June 27, 2021, Pastor Stuart Nice shared a message in person and online via YouTube Live and Zoom. In our discussion this week, Pastor Stuart continues our new series on the Fruits of the Spirit by sharing how to cultivate strong spiritual roots so that we can keep in step with the Holy Spirit. Cultivating strong spiritual roots entails applying the fertilizer of repentance, surrender, and faithfulness in prayer.

Galatians 5:24-25 (NIV) 
Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit.

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On Sunday, June 20, 2021, Pastor Stuart Nice shared a message in person and online via YouTube Live and Zoom. In our discussion this week, Pastor Stuart introduced a new series on the Fruits of the Spirit by highlighting walking in the Spirit. He encouraged us to cultivate a desire for intimacy with the Holy Spirit, to anticipate spiritual battles, and to envision the path to victory by keeping in step with the Holy Spirit.

Galatians 5:13-18 (NIV) 
You, my brothers and sisters, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the flesh; rather, serve one another humbly in love. For the entire law is fulfilled in keeping this one command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.” If you bite and devour each other, watch out or you will be destroyed by each other.

So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. For the flesh desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh. They are in conflict with each other, so that you are not to do whatever you want. But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.

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On Sunday, June 13, 2021, Pastor Stuart Nice shared a message in person and online via YouTube Live and Zoom. In our discussion this week, Pastor Stuart leads us in conversation from Ephesians 4:15 which is a review of the series on communication. In this conversation, we covered listening well, speaking effectively, working through difficult conversations by checking our own motives first, clarifying our expectations in our relationships, sharing our hopes and dreams, and lastly refreshing others so that we can grow closer to the Lord and one another.

Ephesians 4:15 (NLT)

Instead, we will speak the truth in love, growing in every way more and more like Christ, who is the head of his body, the church.

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On Sunday, June 6, 2021, Pastor Stuart Nice shared a message in person and online via YouTube Live and Zoom. In our discussion this week, Pastor Stuart leads us in conversation from Ephesians 4:15 about appreciating and affirming one another, just as God, the Father, affirms us.

Ephesians 4:15 (NLT)

Instead, we will speak the truth in love, growing in every way more and more like Christ, who is the head of his body, the church.

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On Sunday, June 6, 2021, Pastor Stuart Nice shared a message in person and online via YouTube Live and Zoom. In our discussion this week, Pastor Stuart leads us in conversation from Ephesians 4:15 about appreciating and affirming one another, just as God, the Father, affirms us.

Ephesians 4:15 (NLT)

Instead, we will speak the truth in love, growing in every way more and more like Christ, who is the head of his body, the church.

http://bit.ly/Eph4_15NLT